• Air date: 23 Sep '78 26 episodes
      Once Upon a Time… Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time. The series' opening and ending title sequences famously used Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as the main title theme music. Shortening the piece to only 2 minutes in length, the introduction uses the very beginning, which jumps into the start of the middle section and finally the dramatic ending to coincide with the destruction of Earth at the end of the intro.
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. And Earth was created...

      23 Sep '78
    • 2. Neanderthal Man

      30 Sep '78
    • 3. Cro-Magnon Man

      07 Oct '78
    • 4. The Fertile Valleys

      14 Oct '78
    • 5. The First Empires

      21 Oct '78
    • 6. The Age of Pericles

      28 Oct '78
    • 7. The Pax Romana

      04 Nov '78
    • 8. The Conquest of Islam

      11 Nov '78
    • 9. The Carolingians

      18 Nov '78
    • 10. The Age of Vikings

      25 Nov '78
    • 11. The Cathedral Builders

      02 Dec '78
    • 12. The Travels of Marco Polo

      09 Dec '78
    • 13. The Hundred Years' War

      16 Dec '78
    • 14. The Quattrocento

      23 Dec '78
    • 15. The Golden Age of Spain

      30 Dec '78
    • 16. Elizabethan England

      06 Jan '79
    • 17. The Golden Age of the Low Countries

      13 Jan '79
    • 18. The Great Reign of Louis XIV

      20 Jan '79
    • 19. Peter the Great and his Times

      27 Jan '79
    • 20. The Age of Reason (18th)

      03 Feb '79
    • 21. America

      03 Mar '79
    • 22. 1789–1814 (The French Revolution)

      10 Mar '79
    • 23. The Awakening of the People (Revolutions of 1848)

      17 Mar '79
    • 24. The Belle Epoque

      24 Mar '79
    • 25. The Crazy Years

      31 Mar '79